Book chapters (Communication, marketing and media)http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2742016-12-10T02:56:34Z2016-12-10T02:56:34Z'It took a lot to admit I am male on here'. Going where few men dare to tread: men on Mumsnet.Pedersen, Sarahhttp://hdl.handle.net/10059/18272016-09-21T21:00:37Z2015-09-01T00:00:00Z'It took a lot to admit I am male on here'. Going where few men dare to tread: men on Mumsnet.
Pedersen, Sarah
It may be unusual to consider men as a marginalised group, but the male users of the UK discussion forum Mumsnet form a very small minority. While Mumsnet states that it is 'by parents, for parents', the vast majority of the users of its discussion board, 'Mumsnet Talk' (which has 4.2 million monthly unique visitors), are women. Indeed, Mumsnet has a growing feminist voice (Pedersen and Smithson, 2013). The latest statistics from a Mumsnet census conducted in the autumn of 2013 show that men make up 16% of all users of Mumsnet but only 2-5% of core users. This chapter, which has been researched in collaboration with Mumsnet, investigates the motivations of these male users. It argues that the men use Mumsnet because they wish to be seen as parents rather than fathers and because they are attracted by the variety and quality of discussion on Mumsnet. However, not all users of Mumsnet are welcoming and thus the men have to decide whether or not to 'out' themselves as men and which discussions to enter.
2015-09-01T00:00:00ZBlot on the landscape: how Brighton and Hove kept the progressive dream alive.Morrison, Jameshttp://hdl.handle.net/10059/17032016-09-15T21:00:30Z2015-05-19T00:00:00ZBlot on the landscape: how Brighton and Hove kept the progressive dream alive.
Morrison, James
The distinctive three-marginal nature of Brighton and Hove had made it a focus of Labour’s ‘ground-war’ in the months running up to 7 May 2015. Given the city’s status as Britain’s leading Green stronghold (until 48 hours after the general election, it boasted the party’s only council), Labour always faced a tricky tactical voting mission, as it sought to portray a Green vote as an expensive luxury in Kemptown’s tight two-horse race.
2015-05-19T00:00:00ZBreak-point for Brexit? How UKIP's image of 'hate' set race discourse reeling back decades.Morrison, Jameshttp://hdl.handle.net/10059/15542016-08-03T21:00:42Z2016-06-30T00:00:00ZBreak-point for Brexit? How UKIP's image of 'hate' set race discourse reeling back decades.
Morrison, James
This article argues that the Grassroots Out "Breaking Point" poster was the crystallisation of a moral panic narrative framed around negative stereotypes of foreigners that had echoes of similarly racialized moral panics of the 1960s and 1970s. The poster sought to conflate European Union economic migrants with refugees and immigrants generally - portraying all of these disparate groups as one and the same, namely an invasive threat to the UK's economy, culture and security.
2016-06-30T00:00:00ZTwitter response to televised political debates in Election 2015.Pedersen, SarahBaxter, GraemeBurnett, Simon M.MacLeod, IainGoker, AyseHeron, Michael JamesIsaacs, JohnElyan, EyadKaliciak, Leszekhttp://hdl.handle.net/10059/13342016-11-24T12:18:36Z2015-01-01T00:00:00ZTwitter response to televised political debates in Election 2015.
Pedersen, Sarah; Baxter, Graeme; Burnett, Simon M.; MacLeod, Iain; Goker, Ayse; Heron, Michael James; Isaacs, John; Elyan, Eyad; Kaliciak, Leszek
2015-01-01T00:00:00Z